In what kind of world do you want to live?
Posted on May 8th, 2008
by 
rapunzel
rapunzel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 08, 2008:
I do think about the big-world concepts, and I vote and follow what's going on in the world, but I don't think I can come up with a utopian concept that would make much sense. Because the world I really live in is fairly intimate. It's wherever I am in the moment and I do want to live there. I want to live in the world where I have my dogs and the cats and our garden and plants and the paths I go hiking and our funky little house and my neighbors with the still bald baby with the gigantic eyes and spring produce coming in and full moons and friends and love and today I want to live in the world where I can have things that are broken in my body put right again almost like magic.( I asked them to do this under spinal rather than general anesthesia and no versed so I can watch and remember but I think they will get reactionary if I ask to bring my camera too.)
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May 2008
Do ask to bring your camera.Take lots of pictures,I like all of your pictures,real life photos. You are in my thoughts Jeannie.
We all are praying that your operation is a huge success!
oh!! I want to see pics! I want to share one with you too…..
it's from my eye surgery day a little more than a year ago. they didn't get too reactionary when I told adam to take my picture.
they put me under some strange kind of drug that didn't make me unconscious,but made it so I wouldn't remember because they needed me to sort of help out by moving my other eye or something like that. but I remember the doc asking the nurse for something or other and the nurse saying, “it's already in your hand” and I remember thinking “uh-oh” and then that's all. but it all turned out ok and my doc was BRILLIANT and still is and now he takes photos of my eye right up close to take with him to lectures in asia about the magic of corneal transplants. so maybe they wouldn't get too reactionary after all?
love, love, love to you and your beautiful knee which will be perfect again before you know it!!
xo
-d
hey all, everything went fine. Dawn, Krissy wasn't allowed to be in the OR with me so I didn't want to ask the anesthesiologist to take pics - they already thought I was crazy because I asked not to get the thing-that-makes-you-forget, which is Versed (pronounced ver-sed, not like the word versed) and I overheard the two anesthesia people in the next room, one saying “is she sure she wants to do that” and then nothing which I assume was a shrug…but I'm glad I did it that way, it was fascinating stuff. I got to see the inside of my knee on a tv screen and also the bones and muscles and stuff in my leg in a reflection, because at the same time they removed hardware from a leg fracture a while back - a plate and 8 screws. So I'm cheating a little by posting this, because I'm supposed to be lying down/leg elevated and I'm going right back. Yesterday evening the pain was awesome, today not bad at all. I'll blog about it later. I love you all.
Oh, I do have pics from the anthroscopy though - my doc printed them out for me.
girl, you totally took charge of something that scared you! you're my heroine!!!
nice!!!! happy healing!!!